Diana is a successful author of a series of romantic books set in the 19th century. She is very fond of Greg who is the photo model who is on the cover of all her books. Before Christmas, Diana now needs time to write and heads to Maple Creek, a village that has been preserved since the 19th century where she hopes to get inspiration. Once there, she realizes that the village is threatened with closure and she gets involved in trying to come up with an event before Christmas to draw visitors there. She gets, among other things, help from Carter who is temporarily the village blacksmith. After a bad start, she starts to like Carter more and more. But who is right for her? The "perfect" Greg or the slightly troublesome Carter?
The movie turned out to be quite good as a romantic film if one manage to get past Jake Epstein's somewhat sluggish style.